DB Read Replicas have write access in Rails?

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Hello,

I have a Rails app that’s seeing some scale, so I am interested in adding another app machine + a read replica DB in a different part of the world. I’m trying to follow the instructions here: High Availability & Global Replication · Fly Docs

At first glance, things seemed to work. However, when I connect to a Rails console secondary machine attached to the read replica (confirmed by outputting Rails.configuration.database_configuration), I am still able to save records. Also, when I create records in the front-end, I am not seeing the Rails.info.logger message that is supposed to print “Replaying Request”:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  rescue_from ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid do |e|
    if e.cause.is_a?(PG::ReadOnlySqlTransaction)
      r = ENV["PRIMARY_REGION"]
      response.headers["fly-replay"] = "region=#{r}"
      Rails.logger.info "Replaying request in #{r}"
      render plain: "retry in region #{r}", status: 409
    else
      raise e
    end
  end
end

I’m out of ideas… Has anyone successfully gotten this to work?

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